Keywords are tags that you can associate to a family, student, staff, or class record. They can be used to filter search results on the the list pages or in your reports. Also, they can be used for certain tasks like auto payments. They can be used to accommodate many different customized search parameters that your business might need.

One of my favorite use of keywords is using a keyword to "tag" a group of classes that are not necessarily grouped using any other settings like programs or levels. For Example, you may have multiple team programs called "Boys Team" and one called "Girls Team." You can quickly and easily tag all those team classes with a keyword called team.

Once you have your keyword in place, you can do so many things using that keyword. You can:

• Use reports to pull a list of every family, student, or class that is related to keyword "team"
• Quickly Communicate with any family or student enrolled in a team class via text message, email, or voice broadcast.
• Easily apply a miscellaneous charge to an account for team members. (Uniforms, Meet Fees, etc.)

Those are just some of the things most users want to do often, and using keywords can improve the ease and speed at which these tasks can be done. But, there are many more applications for keywords and they are used in iClassPro everyday in many different ways.

See our recently added video overview of keywords here: http://support.iclasspro.com/entries/359631-keywords-overview

Glad this helped you out! We would love to hear how you plan on using keywords! That might help giving everyone a better idea of how they can use keywords.

@Michele and Tom: Those are both great uses for our awesome keyword feature! Thanks for sharing!

I would love to hear from everyone else how they use keywords.